Backups failing to connect to mysql

SYSTEM INFORMATION
OS type and version Ubuntu 20.04
Webmin version 1.973
Virtualmin version 6.16
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Hi,

For some time now my backups only complete partially. Based on the messages in the emails, seems like they are failing on connecting to mqsql. Here is the error log:

Backup is partially complete. Final size was 726.97 KiB. Total backup time was 00 minutes, 52 seconds.

.. backup of mysql failed : mysql::execute_sql failed : DBI connect failed :  Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysql.sock' (2)

On inspecting the Webmin MySQl Database server, I am seeing this error over there:

Error! MySQL is not running on your system - database list could not be retrieved.

MySQL error messageThe full MySQL error message was : DBI connect failed : Can’t connect to local MySQL server through socket ‘/var/run/mysqld/mysql.sock’ (2)

Not sure if these are related. Any ideas on how I can go about troubleshooting this?

Thank you!
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